different between meronym vs meronymy

English

Etymology

From mero- +? -onym, from Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “part”) + ????? (ónuma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???n?m/

Noun

meronym (plural meronyms)

1. (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

   Synonym: partonym

   Antonym: holonym

   • 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database,^[1] MIT Press, ?ISBN, page 38,

     If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

Holonyms

• semantic network
• thesaurus

Coordinate terms

• hypernym
• hyponym

Derived terms

• comeronym
• meronymic
• meronymy
• meronymous

Translations

See also

• synecdoche

Swedish

Noun

meronym c

1. (semantics) meronym

Declension

English

Etymology

From mero- +? -onymy (from Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “part”) + ????? (ónoma, “name”)); compare meronym.

Noun

meronymy (countable and uncountable, plural meronymies)

1. (semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.

   Antonym: holonymy

   • 1995, Jürgen Handke, The Structure of the Lexicon: Human Versus Machine, page 90,

     This relationship of meronymy is controversial for various reasons. First, there are several types of meronymy, such as functional meronymy, where one concept is a functional part of another (e.g. FINGER-HAND) or more general part-whole relations, where the part and the whole exist as a continuous entity (e.g. FLAME-FIRE). Secondly, there are diverging opinions as to whether meronymy should be treated as a semantic primitive in the sense of [syn]onymy, antonymy, and hyponymy.

   • 1999, Sylvia Adamson, 7: Literary Language, Roger Lass (editor), The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume III: 1476-1776, page 564,

     But whereas hyponymy is a member—class relation, reflecting a taxonomy or conceptual hierarchy, meronymy is a part—whole relation, reflecting the existence of complex structures in concrete reality.

   • 2003, M. Lynne Murphy, Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and Other Paradigms, pages 233-234,

     Possession, like meronymy, is described in English (and equivelently in other languages) with the verb to have (A millionaire has money) and the line between possession and part-having is fuzzy at best. […] Priss (1998) suggests that meronymy might be formalized as an attribution relation, such that HAS-A-HANDLE-FOR-A-PART would be an attribute of hammer and cup. Thus, the case for separating attribution and possession from meronymy is not strong.

Related terms

• semantics
• synonymy
• antonymy
• homonymy
• polysemy
• paronymy
• hypernymy
• hyponymy
• metonymy
• holonymy
• exocentric
• endocentric

Translations

Further reading

• meronymy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia